UCLA’s Epic Game-Winning TD Probably Shouldn’t Have Counted, Definitely Should Have Been Reviewed

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On college football’s opening weekend, UCLA and quarterback Josh Rosen did the impossible. Texas A&M was up on UCLA 44-10 with under five minutes left in the third quarter. The chances of the Bruins coming back were somewhere around 0.5%. And yet, at the end of the day, UCLA miraculously walked away with a 45 to 44 victory thanks to a 35-0 run including a fake spike TD pass to seal the deal.

But should that final TD have counted? It would appear now, in retrospect, that it probably shouldn’t have, and at the very least it should have been reviewed, because it was not.

Here’s the touchdown at full speed…

And here it is from another angle and in slow-motion…

And here it is broken into a couple of screenshots, the first of which shows that UCLA wide receiver Jordan Lasley appeared to bobble the ball as his right foot hit in bounds…

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And then when he did finally secure it his right foot was clearly out of bounds…

UCLA Jordan Lasley game winning catch

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Curiously and coincidentally, Fox didn’t show a replay of the catch until after the extra point and the officials also did not review the play, which would have been automatic had this taken place in the NFL.

Did any of this change the outcome of the game? We’ll never know since if had been called incomplete there still would have been 43 seconds left with UCLA having at least a couple more shots at the end zone.

That being said, the play, considering it decided the outcome of the game, definitely should have been reviewed.

H/T Yahoo! Sports, Total Pro Sports

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